Spaces - s/t

Name: Spaces
Album: s/t
Year: 1981
Style: Jazz
Similar Bands: Group 87, Grover Washington Jr, Brand X
"One-Word" Review: TV Theme Jazz
Based Out Of: Philadelphia, PA
Label: Artista

 Cover, Record

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Spaces (1981)

1. Song For Jeremy 5:45
2. Try Some Of This 5:00
3. Eddie and Carol 5:02
4. The Clam 4:00 /
5. Shadow Street 6:55
6. Life Line 5:34
7. Chemical Man 5:20 

Album Rating (1-10): 5.0

Members & Other Bands:

• Scott Clancy - Guitars, Vox (Billy Glenn)
• Steve Dublin - Drums (Billy Glenn, Chico DeBarge, Bebe & Cece Winans, Princess, Judy Mowatt, Elisa Fiorillo, Nick Kamen, Parthenon Huxley, The Way Moves, Robbie Nevil, Darlene Love, F Machine, Cerrone, Bert Robinson, Alisha, Dee Harvey, The Fixx, Go West)
• Marc Goodman - Pianos, Synth, Clavinet (Battle of Mice, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Illminea, 2 Foot Yard, A Storm of Light, Book of Knots, Care Bears on Fire, Jolie Holland)
• Don Eaton - Tenor, Alto, Soprano Sax (Billy Glenn)
• Michael Schlesinger - Bass, Vox (Billy Glenn)
• Ralph MacDonald - Percussion, Production (Antisia Music, Coral Reef Band, Rainbow, The Writers, many, many more...)
• Bill Eaton - Backing Vox (Idris Muhammad, Gary Buck)
• Frank Floyd - Backing Vox (Consumer Rapport, The Writers, The Wiz, Rachel Faro, Hank Crawford, Bob James, Frankie Valli, Freddie Hubbard, Robin Kenyatta, Idris Muhammad, Cy Coleman, Patti Austin, Blood Sweat & Tears, Yusef Lateef, Burt Bacharach, Harry Belafonte, Nils Lofgren, Nina Simone, Roberta Flack, Billy Joel, Quincy Jones)
• Zak Sanders - Backing Vox (Bob James, Esther Phillips, Robin Kenyatta, Patti Austin, Hank Crawford, Freddie Hubbard, Blood Sweat & Tears, Burt Bacharach, Nils Lofgren, Roberta Flack, Idris Muhammad, Billy Joel, Mongo Santamaria, Quincy Jones)
• Eliot Scheiner - Engineer, Mixing
• Jerry Williamson - Engineer
• Bruce Weeden - Engineer
• Garth Persichetti - Production Assistant
• John Senior - Production Assistant
• Lloyd Zane Remick - Mgmt
• John Ford - Photo
• Sonia Santos - Hair/Makeup
• Hui Wang - Stylist
• Howard Fritzon - Design
• Donn Davenport - Art Direction

Unknown-ness: Never heard of this band, but it looks quite promising. Like the action in the font, and the capture of the rainbow light burst through the pane of glass also possesses a lot of energy. The photo on the back looks like a bunch of confident beardy dudes who might produce some good, fun music.

Album Review: Boy was I wrong, this album is not really my thing, so it's hard to write a short, straight critique when the bar was set high...and for a different "sport" (genre) altogether. Not much info on them, thanks to a hard-to-track SEO name. But the songs feel like either 80's tv show themes or mid-tempo video game scores (thinking Sonic in the Chaos Emerald Bonus stage). Track 2 has vocals, and it is slightly funky, maybe even a little Talking Heads-ish, if they had made music for a furniture outlet.

Stand Out Track: Try Some of This

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